The Space Force launch enterprise is slashing the time it takes to get a payload into space. What began as a series of proof-of-concept experiments, beginning with Victus Nox—Latin for “conquer the night”—and a follow-on coming soon called Victus Haze, is evolving into a new ...
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The Space Force added to its effort to "speed run” satellite launches with the latest in a series of Tactically Responsive Space missions announced Feb. 13.
Space Force Testing AI Automation By Greg Hadley ORLANDO, Fla. T he Space Force is flying new command and control software on experimental satellites that automates some functions for ops crews, said Kelly D. Hammett, head of the Space Rapid...
The Space Force’s “Victus” series, aimed at showing the service can respond to new developments in orbit on tactically relevant timelines, gained steam Oct. 4 with the announcement of two new missions in 2026.
The Space Force’s first mission to launch a satellite in record time was so nice, the service is doing it twice for the follow-up.Space Systems Command, with some help from the Defense Innovation Unit, awarded two contracts for its next tactically responsive space mission, Victus ...
The Space Force is expanding the scope of its upcoming mission to launch a satellite on 24 hours’ notice—and hopes to declare initial operational capability for the effort, dubbed “Tactically Responsive Space,” in fiscal 2025.
Five months after the Space Force made history by launching a satellite just 27 hours after receiving orders, the mission is over and the spacecraft is out of orbit, the service announced this week. The effort, dubbed Victus Nox, broke records for the Space Force ...
Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman has rarely missed a chance in recent months to highlight the Space Force’s “Victus Nox” mission that procured and launched a satellite in record-breaking time. And during his “State of the Space Force” keynote address at the ...
We’re trying to articulate a requirement to the Space Force that we need to be able to have sustained space maneuver.
When the Space Force shattered its own records by sending a satellite into orbit 27 hours after receiving launch orders as part of its “Victus Nox” mission, Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman likened it to Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier. Yet as ...
For decades, the Space Force and the Air Force before it have had a tried-and-true method: massive, costly satellites are sent into orbit by launches that have been planned for months. Once there, those satellites mostly stay put in their orbits, preserving as much fuel ...
WORLD: Space: Victus Nox launch; Classified Space Force strategy; New Deltas streamline feedback.
